Roads with 4 (or more) words in their names
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Roads with 4 (or more) words in their names
We have a few hereabouts:
St Swithun's Road South and Durley Chine Road South, both where the original road has been revamped for parts of a ring road, and are now split in two.
Prince of Wales Road is, I imagine, a common name and I expect there are a few Duke of York Roads as well.
Queen's Park West Drive and Queen's Park South Drive for slightly more unusual positioning of the compass-point word.
I've come across a couple of 5s, those being St John's Wood High Street in London and There And Back Again Lane in Bristol.
I expect there are a few more in the pattern of maybe Sir Xxx Xxx Road, or Rose and Crown Close on the site of a former pub.
But what others are there?
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There are also a few "Sir Bob Smith Way" type roads dotted around the country.
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From the SABRE Wiki: A4150 :
The A4150 (also known as the Wolverhampton Inner Ring Road) forms a loop of the city centre of just over two miles, meeting the vast majority of the radial routes heading into the city centre.
It is entirely dual carriageway throughout its length, and the individual sections (except one) are named after nearby churches. The number A4150 does not appear on any signs throughout its length, and indeed is only used at the nearby roundabout junction between Waterloo Road
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East India Dock Road, West India Dock Road
It's easier when you add in a title, but some are easier for places or buildings than roads.
How do you say Charles II Street? I'd say it as Charles the Second Street. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.50785 ... .17z?hl=en
Duke of Cambridge Close, Twickenham
Duke of Wellington Avenue
Duke of Wellington Place
Duke Street St James https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.50769 ... .46z?hl=en
Duke of York Street
And finally, does the B4351 have a name? Could it possibly be the Hay-on-Wye Road? https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.08085 ... .55z?hl=en
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Rose Street North Lane & Rose Street South Lane
Similarly, Young Street and Hill Street both have North and South Lanes
Thistle Street takes it a step further and we get Thistle Street North East Lane, with associated variants for NW, SE and SW
Going a little further out, we have North West Circus Place, North East Circus Place and South East Circus Place. Curiously there is no South West Circus Place; there is a street where you would expect to find that name, but it's called Circus Gardens.
There are a few other examples around the New Town, where a street has lanes behind it which take the name of the street, add a compass point prefix and the Lane suffix.
Going to the very edge of Edinburgh, the A720 is called The City of Edinburgh Bypass.
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I'm surprised nobody has suggested any bypasses which relieve two places at once.
In Dublin there is South Great George's Street which combines two prefixes. Similarly St John's Road West.
Similar confusion with the busiest candidate we are likely to find: QEII Bridge.Big Nick wrote: ↑Mon May 18, 2020 08:45 It's easier when you add in a title, but some are easier for places or buildings than roads.
How do you say Charles II Street? I'd say it as Charles the Second Street. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.50785 ... .17z?hl=en
From the SABRE Wiki: Queen Elizabeth II Bridge :
The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge is a river crossing on the A282 (not the M25 as commonly believed). It spans the River Thames between Thurrock in Essex and Dartford in Kent, carrying southbound traffic. Northbound traffic goes via the Dartford Tunnel, which form the other half of the Dartford Crossing.
An image of the Bridge forms the logo for Dartford Borough Council.
The completion of the section of the M25 south of Swanley resulted in a
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I'll try to come up with some more local to me.
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https://londonist.com/london/best-of-lo ... treet-name
The article also mentions Stoke Newington Church Street which is quite a major road in that part of London.